Matthew Buckland
@matthewbuckland
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Entrepreneur & investor: Ventureburn & Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), exited digital agency, MTB cyclist, traveller, husband & dad of 2, Weim lover
Joined March 2008
RT @memeburn: Twitter shares safety progress, announces future updates to reduce spam
memeburn.com
Twitter on Wednesday revealed a progress report outlining how some of its updates have improved safety on the platform in the past year.
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RT @Ventureburn: Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund to invest tickets of €3m-€15m in African startups (@AfricInvest_Grp @CathayCapital) -….
ventureburn.com
The recently launched Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund will invest tickets of between €3m and €15m or the equivalent in local currency, Cathay Innovation co-founder Denis Barrier has said.
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Final proofs for the book have just arrived. so exciting.
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New @Ventureburn and @memeburn site relaunch looks so awesome. Well done to the talented teams in Cape Town & Joburg. Still ironing out problems, but the 90% of it is there!!
ventureburn.com
Ventureburn is focused on telling the world’s tech startup, business, venture capital, and entrepreneurship stories from the emerging market sector.
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RT @Ventureburn: Media must help unite Africa’s tech startup scene, but also act as watchdog – Buckland (@Seedstars @matthewbuckland) https….
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Enough collusion talk. It's time to focus on Trump's corruption
theguardian.com
If there is a silver lining to the confusion and disappointment of Russiagate, it is that we can now pay attention to the real fleecing
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RT @Ventureburn: Here are the eight funds that the SA SME Fund will invest in (@sasmefund @4DiCapital @KnifeCap @savant_sa @GrindstoneXL @S….
ventureburn.com
The R1.4-billion SA SME Fund, which was officially launched yesterday by President Cyril Ramaphosa, will invest in eight funds and one accelerator.
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Podcasting's Netflix moment: the global battle for domination
theguardian.com
With huge audience growth forecast, the race is on to lead podcast distribution
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RT @Ventureburn: 20 African startups selected for the UK's Go Global Africa programme (@FlexpayKe @gluglobal @Envisionit_ZA @ticafrika @e_T….
ventureburn.com
Here are the 20 tech startups from Kenya, Nigeria and SA selected to take part in the UK's Go Global Africa 2019 programme.
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RT @Ventureburn: African tech startups raised over $1.2bn in funding in 2018 - Partech report (@PartechPartners)
ventureburn.com
Partech Africa report has found that 146 African tech startups raised $1.163-billion in equity funding over 164 rounds in 2018.
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Can SA’s new challenger banks knock out the ‘big four’? via @FinancialMail.
businesslive.co.za
Three new banks — all backed by powerful SA business personalities — are opening their digital doors, offering something entirely different
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If you know what "The browser wars" were or Mozilla or dial-up was, then the *brilliant* Valley of the Boom is required watching - #iTunes @valleyoftheboom.
tv.apple.com
This limited hybrid series takes us from the explosive, game-changing birth of Silicon Valley through the 2001 dot-com bust. Carried by tremendous cha…
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Jumia is a pan-African, global success story. Operates in 14 African countries, registered as a German company, headquartered in Dubai, tech team in Portugal, South Africa connection is MTN (founding + largest shareholder). And now to be listed in NYC:
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Unless they change their fee structures and business model, I predict companies like Allan Gray, Coronation and similar investment houses won't be around in 10 years time.
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Why Is Silicon Valley So Obsessed With the Virtue of Suffering?
nytimes.com
The Stoics and friends continue to be the dominant thought leaders from Google to Apple — and a new entrepreneur lobbying firm has even named itself Cicero.
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RT @Richards_Karin: Why I will not touch a unit trust, ever. This large Allan Gray Global fund has apparently returned, in US$, -15.3% over….
moneyweb.co.za
The Global Optimal Fund of Funds has charged for performance despite sustained weak returns.
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MATTHEW BUCKLAND: Tech firms are making wild profits due to scalability via @BDliveSA.
businesslive.co.za
Low costs and low barriers to entry mean it’s much easier for an entrepreneur to start a tech company with minimal revenue and get it to a point of inflection
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Must say. Apple’s constant hyperbole at its launch event is getting a bit much and makes them look silly half the time. Just seen people go crazy for a white credit card. Woah. Blow my hair back. #AppleSpecialEvent #apple.
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